The urban doom loop could be bad news for Democrats – By John Sexton (Hot Air) / Mar 15, 2023
Last year columnist Thomas Edsall wrote a lengthy piece about the concept of the “urban doom loop” driven by the pandemic. There’s a lot to say about this topic and you can read some of the background here and here but the very short version goes like this:
- In response to the pandemic, lots of fairly well off white collar workers moved out of city centers and relocated (temporarily) to suburban areas or second homes.
- The need to keep businesses running spawned the widespread adoption of ways to get around people not being in the office, i.e. zoom meetings.
- As people who’d escaped the cities realized they could do their jobs from home for extended periods, a return to the cities became optional. For many, the move to the suburbs became permanent.
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